Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
...language is never innocent.
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.
